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GM Soy Is Toxic Soy - Take Action
Health & Wellness  (tags: GMOs, GM, genetically modified, soya, food, agriculture, farms, farming, farmers, research, safety, science, warning, prevention, protection, food, government, health, environment, ethics, humans, study, risks, nutrition )

Elena
- 28 days ago - toxicsoy.org
Even worse, they legitimise genetically engineered (GE) soy which is designed to be produced with large (and increasing) amounts of agri-chemicals. This is at the cost of people and the environment. This site explains what is wrong with this and questions
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Food-Safety Bill Spurs Backlash
Health & Wellness  (tags: farming, regulations, food safety, investigation, risks, safety, government )

Michelle
- 126 days ago - online.wsj.com
Legislation to overhaul the nation's food-safety system has spurred a backlash from livestock and grain farmers who don't want the Food and Drug Administration inspecting farms.
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Sign Petition: Improve California Hen Welfare and Food Safety
Health & Wellness  (tags: animals, suffering, cruelty, death, environment, humans, health, safety, risks, disease, food, illness, money, corruption, business, dishonesty, factory, farming, pig, cow, chicken, fish, water, pollution, meat, steroids, antibiotics, global, warming )

Tom
- 185 days ago - community.hsus.org
AB 1437 will require that all shelled eggs sold in California as of January 1, 2015 be in compliance with the basic animal care standards set forth in the Prevention Farm Animal Cruelty Act, which was approved by 63.5 percent of voters in November 2008.
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The Bridge Over 2012   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: 2012, bridge, materialism, spiritual, spirituality, culture, community, rural, agricultural, farming, obama, election, change, accelerating, beyond, meditation, consciousness, Vedic )

Gregory
- 322 days ago - youtube.com
The materialistic culture is failing; tremendous changes are coming that will create chaos worldwide. Eventually a new culture based on spiritual values will form. Why not just join that culture now? Our community is the bridge. - 46 minutes in length -
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Dear Mr. President-Elect -- Rethink Food & Agriculture Policies: Organic Food! Food Sovereignty! Food Safety! Factory Farms!
Health & Wellness  (tags: American, world, food system, political agenda, agriculture, policy, sustainable, farming, health, food safety, sovereignty, prices, availabilty, quality, organic, food riots, World Bank, IMF, world's farmers, consumers, factory farms, global warmin )

Alba
- 364 days ago - fooddemocracy.wordpress.com
You're probably thinking that eating organic food in White House carries a political risk. You can easily deflect charge of elitism leveled at sustainable-food movement. Reform our food system! Help us take control of family dinner & our diet back from...
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Water Rights Restored, Southwestern Tribes Hope for Health Benefits
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Americans, water rights, farming, irrigation, diet, tradition, diabetes, fast food, Native culture, Pima, Maricopa, Tohono O’odham, New Mexico, Arizona, Gila River )

RC
- 447 days ago - nytimes.com
The Pima, Maricopa & Tohono O'odham communities in the American southwest are looking forward to using the water to farm for more traditional, natural foods, as obesity accompanied by diabetes devastates their health.
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Charles Warns GM Farming Will End in Ecological Disaster
Health & Wellness  (tags: Alternative, diet, farming, food, environment, food, genetic, genetic modification, GMO, government, health, humans, interesting, investigation, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, warning )

Todd
- 462 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Prince Charles has warned that the adoption of genetic modification in farming has set the world on course for "the biggest disaster, environmentally, of all time".
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Grow Your Own Way - The New Frontier - Urban Farming
Health & Wellness  (tags: food, nutrition, humans, farming, consumers )

Roseann
- 500 days ago - commongroundmag.com
They're trading lawns for lettuce, bringing hens into the family fold and harvesting honey just steps from their back door. They're the new urban farmers, and they're coming soon to a yard near you (if they're not already there).
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Princess Provides Inspiration to Organic Vegetable Growers
Health & Wellness  (tags: organic, backyard vegetables, sustainable, inspiration, farming, garden, health, food, nutrition )

Elena
- 500 days ago - bangkokpost.com
NAN : Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has inspired residents in this northern province to raise organic vegetables in their backyards
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California Lists Where Recalled Beef Was Shipped
Health & Wellness  (tags: corporate, consumers, farming, farms, humans, lies, marketing, money, safety, risks, research, humans, health )

Ginger
- 626 days ago - usatoday.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 5,000 California supermarkets, restaurants, retailers and school districts received meat recalled last month by Westland/Hallmark Meat -- and now a state website lists their names and locations.
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U.K. Government Moves to Hide GM Crop Trials From Public
Health & Wellness  (tags: GM, Genetic Engineering, crops, vegetables, agriculture, farming )

Alf
- 632 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Genetically modified crops may be grown in hidden locations in Britain amid fears that anti-GM campaigners are winning the battle over the controversial technology, the Guardian has learned.
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Take Action: GE (Genetically Engineered) Sugar? Not So Sweet
Health & Wellness  (tags: Monsanto, poison, Roundup weed killer, poison residue, EPA, genetic engineering, sugar, candy, lobbyists, americans, corruption, dishonesty, ethics, freedoms, lies, ecosystems, environment, children, consumers, farming, money, food, garden, health, health )

Rebecca
- 640 days ago - ga3.org
Half of the sugar used in the U.S. is beet sugar. A new option available this year is Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beet, genetically engineered to survive direct application of the weed killer, Roundup. The EPA raised the allowable residue level 5000%!!
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Factory Animal Farms Produce Meat Through Routine Torture and Environmental Destruction
Health & Wellness  (tags: factory farms, torture, farming )


- 774 days ago - newstarget.com
Public and environmental health is being severely threatened through the institution of animal factory farming, which pollutes our water, air, soil and even our bodies with harmful chemicals and pollutants. Corporations now have taken .....
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Organic Farmers Use Bt to Control Crop-Eating Insects - Good or Bad?
Health & Wellness  (tags: Organic, Farming, GMO, bt, insect control )


- 780 days ago - bt.ucsd.edu
For years organic farmers have used bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to control crop eating insects. Because Bt is organic, and seems to affects insects with no evidence of it harming the environment, governments and private industries fund research on Bt...
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